Grizzly Bear at the Palladium, 4/6/13: Review

Five short years ago, Grizzly Bear played before a transfixed and adoring audience of perhaps 100 people on the cramped stage of Club Dada. Touring to support their break-through album Yellow House, the band brought to stage the unique and peculiar blend of soaring vocals, tight harmonies, literate lyrics and…

Last Night I Got Intimate with Drowning Pool: Photos

Dallas’ own Drowning Pool has a new album — its first with lead singer Jasen Moreno. He’s the fourth man to fill that spot and the transitions haven’t always been easy or smooth. But the band is clearly comfortable with Moreno. Comfortable enough to take a crack at an unrehearsed…

Ten Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: April 4-10

Editor: April showers, right? But a little water isn’t stopping anyone, which is good because there are excellent shows happening this week. Including the blissfully strange Danny Brown, touring with beat master and unexpected meme star Baauer. -topic and his TeamFromNoWhere are throwing a party on Saturday at Club Dada…

The Nine Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: March 28 to April 3

Editor: Welcome to our weekly rundown of our nine favorite shows, all of which are better than this new Lil’ Wayne album. It’s terrible, guys. If you’re looking for loud, head to Dada for The Casualties and awesome friends. If you’re looking for something a little more multi-generational on this…

The Ten Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: March 21 to 27

We’re changing it up here a bit, guys. For the past several months you’ve seen two blog posts outta me each week, breaking up the area’s best concerts into two separate blog posts: Freakin’ Weekday and Freakin’ Weekend. Starting today, you’ll get just one: Freakin’ Week; which is a go-to…

Eric Clapton at American Airlines Center, 3/19/13: Review

Last night, Eric Clapton and Dallas-born guitarist Doyle Bramhall II set fire to their Stratocasters’ fretboards. Their fingers slid across the neck, bending strings until they bled the blues. Feeding off a musical energy straight from the Crossroads, the talented guitarists empowered some of Clapton’s greatest hits with a musical…

Snoop Dogg’s St. Patrick’s Day Concert: Review and Photos

Snoop Dogg delivered an hour-plus of his finest yesterday on Greenville Avenue for the Observer St. Patrick’s Day Concert. We had a fine contingent of writers there, but I, your highly addled editor, was sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-35 on the Megabus headed back from Austin. Throughout the afternoon,…

Muse at American Airlines Center: Review and Photos

The tech crew is rushing around to get things started. Some of them are on the floor, frantically trying to get the fog machines going, and others are hanging from the ceiling checking the ginormous speakers from above. The fog begins to fill the stadium and the lights begin to…

Snoop Dogg’s St. Patrick’s Day Concert is Sold Out

Update, 3:12 p.m. And it’s sold out! See you all Saturday. Original post follows… Long Beach’s finest will grace the stage at the Energy Square Parking Lot in two days, and he will not be alone. Fewer than 200 tickets remain for the show as of this writing. So if…

The Texas Music Revolution Felt Pretty Revolutionary, Actually.

On Saturday, as the rain poured outside of the historic Southfork Ranch in Parker, just east of Plano, nothing could dampen the beautiful and electric vibes inside the complex’s conference center where the annual Texas Music Revolution (hosted by KHYI 95.3 The Range) was taking place. The 17th edition of…

Efterklang at Dan’s Silverleaf: Review

“Even though you think its cold, it’s not cold”, Efterklang’s Casper Clausen admonished the full house at Dan’s Silverleaf. Hailing from Denmark and having spent time above the Arctic Circle, he knows of what he speaks. The dapper Clausen and band mates Rasmus Stolberg on bass and Mads Bauer on…

Tame Impala at Granada Theater: Review

It was symbolic in more ways than one. The sweet and skunky smell of high quality weed that hit you upon entering the Granada last night provided a kind of bridge back to the ’60s and early ’70s. The music of that era has provided the DNA for the woozy…